After about five minutes, thinking of Li Ke’s worried frown, Lin Fang felt a stir in her heart and immediately hurried outside.
She wanted to pull Li Ke over to watch the effects together. Even though the results hadn’t come out yet, Lin Fang had a lot of confidence in Lin Tian.
When Lin Fang rushed out of the pigsty, ready to look for Li Ke, Li Ke was in the hall, frowning worriedly with Lin Cheng.
"Sigh! I don’t know what to do!" Li Ke sighed, her face filled with helplessness.
Helplessness!
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Li Ke really felt helpless.
Her pig farm had just started when, unexpectedly, such a thing happened. Everything was going well, and she was about to get on the right track. Next year, Li Ke even planned to expand her pig farm, but then this disaster struck.
"What should I do about the debt I owe the bank?" Thinking of the debts she took on for the pig farm, Li Ke felt her hair turning white with worry.
If this epidemic couldn’t be cured, what then? Everything would be ruined.
Hearing Li Ke’s dispirited voice, Lin Cheng took a deep drag on his cigarette, not uttering a word.
After a while, Lin Cheng stubbed out the cigarette in his hand, took out another, and looking up at Li Ke, asked,
"Li, didn’t you say that some expert from the province came to your factory for research last time? How did it go? Do they have any solutions?"
"No, they just said they would give out the results as soon as possible and told me to wait patiently. But I can’t wait any longer, my pig farm is losing two or three pigs a day. I’m about to have a breakdown!" As Li Ke spoke about it, her face showed her distress.
"Sigh!" Hearing this, Lin Cheng sighed, took a deep puff from his cigarette, and said resignedly, "I’m losing about ten a day here, too. It’s lethal!"
Seeing Lin Cheng’s helplessness, Li Ke fell silent, her mood growing very heavy.
After a moment of silence, suddenly, a phone ring broke the quiet.
Hearing the ringing, Lin Cheng looked up to see that it was his own phone on the table that was ringing.
Lin Cheng immediately answered: "Hello? Oh, hello, hello. What? No way! This... okay, okay, I got it. Mm, thank you."
Once the call ended, Lin Cheng seemed to age ten years, sitting dispiritedly on the sofa.
"What’s wrong, Uncle Zhang?" Seeing Lin Cheng’s state, Li Ke curiously asked.
Without raising his head, Lin Cheng looked blankly at the floor and said, "I just got a call. The city is preparing to slaughter the sick pigs to prevent the spread of the epidemic."
"This..." Hearing the news, Li Ke was stunned and her mouth hung open: "Then, what about the losses?"
"The city is compensating thirty percent!" Lin Cheng said, somewhat dejectedly.
"Thirty percent?" Hearing this figure, Li Ke’s brow furrowed instantly. Thirty percent wasn’t even enough to cover the cost of the pigs.
It was foreseeable that with this rate of compensation, farmers would suffer severe losses.
"What, what am I going to do?" Hearing the news, Li Ke suddenly felt completely at a loss.
If compensation was based on this rate, Li Ke’s pig farm would collapse instantly, and her two years of effort would be in vain.
Li Ke sat on the sofa, so anxious she was almost in tears.
The conversation between the two was overheard by Lin Tian as he returned from the pigsty.
Entering the hall, he glanced at the two dispirited figures, especially his father, whose eyes seemed completely lifeless.
Seeing this, Lin Tian shook his head and comforted in a soft voice, "Maybe there’s a way out!"
"It’s gone, it’s all gone!" Lin Cheng didn’t pick up on Lin Tian’s words, just staring blankly at the floor.
Lin Cheng could imagine just how big his losses would be if all his pigs were slaughtered.
In one night, his home could change drastically. It could even regress back to how it was before liberation overnight.
"Sigh..." Thinking of this, Lin Cheng sighed heavily, hands buried in his hair, head bowed dejectedly.
Li Ke also sat quietly, her face wooden.
The slaughtering of the pigs posed a significant threat to Lin Cheng, and no less so for Li Ke. If it happened, Li Ke’s fledgling career would collapse, and she would end up in deep debt.
Sadness!
Sorrowful!
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Even a tinge of despair!
How much she wished someone could save her, someone could help her.
How she hoped for a miracle to occur.
But all these...
Alas!
At the thought of this, Li Ke shook her head in dejection.
"Sister Li!" Just when Li Ke felt she was on the verge of collapse, suddenly, a crisp voice came from outside.
Li Ke looked up and immediately saw Lin Fang running in from outside.
"Sister Li!" As soon as she reached Li Ke’s side, Lin Fang began to mutter softly.
Hearing Lin Fang’s words, Li Ke couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
Shaking her head, Li Ke looked at Lin Fang with a tired expression and a forced smile, "Fang, stop it, I’m really tired right now." She was really at a loss for words with Lin Fang.
What time was it now, to be making such jokes.
Saying that Lin Tian had performed "Magic," healed those pigs, and that it would take effect in ten minutes, demanding that she come and see for herself.
Li Ke was truly speechless.
"I’m not joking, my brother is really amazing. Let’s hurry, or else we won’t make it in time." Lin Fang had great confidence in Lin Tian and immediately pulled Li Ke to go with her.
Li Ke really didn’t want to move, she waved her hand, not wanting to get up.
"Come on, trust me!" Lin Fang still wanted to persuade Li Ke to join her.
"What are you making all the noise for!" Already in a terrible mood, Lin Cheng, hearing his daughter’s incessant calling, felt a wave of irritation and shouted angrily as he raised his head.
"I, I didn’t do anything, my brother said he could cure the swine fever..." Having never seen her father so angry, Lin Fang was suddenly scared and spoke timidly.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng turned his head and glared at Lin Tian with a furious face, "What’s all this fuss about, don’t you know what time it is? How old are you? You’re so thoughtless!"
"I..." Lin Tian opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but in the end, he just shook his head and didn’t say anything.
Due to Lin Cheng’s outburst, the scene immediately fell silent, and the atmosphere became extremely heavy. No one spoke.
Just like that, a minute passed, when suddenly a hurried footsteps came from outside.
Accompanying the footsteps was a voice filled with surprise, "It’s working! It’s working! No more coughing! No more coughing!"
Hearing the voice, Lin Cheng was startled and jerked his head up sharply.
Upon raising his head, he saw a worker in a uniform, his face alight with joy, running towards them.
"What’s going on?" Seeing the person, Lin Cheng asked with a furrowed brow.
"No more coughing! No more coughing!" The man exclaimed with joy, sweating profusely on his forehead from running so fast.
"What do you mean, no more coughing!" Hearing this, Lin Cheng’s heart tightened, he had a faint guess in his mind but he didn’t dare to believe it.
"It’s the pigs! All those pigs have stopped coughing! They’re all better now! And they’re energetic too!" The worker caught his breath and managed to get the words out in one go.
"What?" Upon hearing this, Lin Cheng’s eyes widened in disbelief.
At the same time, Li Ke, who had a gloomy face, also brightened up at the news.
"How, how is this possible!" Hearing this, Lin Cheng stood up in shock.
"It’s true, they’re really better! Don’t know why, but the pigs suddenly stopped coughing, and they looked much more spirited, a lot of them have started getting up to eat their feed!" The worker also seemed in disbelief, still wearing a look of incredulity as he spoke.
After a moment of stun, Lin Cheng came to his senses and quickly got up, "Let’s go, let’s take a look!" As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Cheng couldn’t wait and ran toward the pigsty.
Seeing Lin Cheng leave, Li Ke was startled for a moment, looked at Lin Tian, and then quickly followed.